Mary Catherine Young Smith

Mary Catherine Young Smith, affectionately known by many as "May,"
"Mary Cat," "Grammie," and "Mama," was born to Edgar Henry Young and Amy Julia Berryman Young on September 21, 1931 in Leesburg, Virginia near Oatlands. After a trying battle with illness, Mary departed this life on June 14, 2022.

Mary was baptized in Goose Creek, near New Zion Baptist Church Mountville, Virginia, which she joined in her younger years. In recent years, she enjoyed watching broadcasts of church services of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia and the Providence Baptist Church and the First Baptist Church Sycoline in Leesburg, Virginia.

Mary was educated in the Loudoun County School System, attending the Mountain Gap School near Oatlands, Virginia, and graduating from Douglass High School in Leesburg, Virginia. She worked for over 30 years at the Loudoun Memorial Hospital, primarily in the childbirth services. After retiring from the hospital, she worked for the Medical Team, assisting elderly clients in their own homes.

Mary was married to Chauncey Augustus Smith, Sr. for 37 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents Edgar and Amy Young of Leesburg, Virginia, four brothers George Young of Delaplane, Virginia, Edgar H. Young of Leesburg, Virginia, Leon Young of Leesburg, Virginia, and Robert Young of Pemberton, New Jersey, one sister Edith M. Young of Leesburg, Virginia, husband Chauncey A. Smith, Sr., and stepson Chauncey A. Smith, Jr. of Martinsburg, West Virginia.

She is survived by her daughter, Kathy Elaine Lee Lucas (Jay), and son Dwight Everett Smith of Leesburg, Virginia, stepdaughters Janet Rossell Haley of Woodbridge, Virginia, and Shirley Smith of Manassas, Virginia, stepson Walter A. King of Leesburg, Virginia, grandchildren Jameca Nicole Bushrod of Manassas, Virginia, Katherine Ann Lee of Leesburg, Virginia, Shalita Gooch (Sidney) of Charlotte, North Carolina, Tameeka Godbody (Brandon) of Leesburg, Virginia, Shaun Woodson of Herndon, Virginia, and Jesse Bushrod-Morgan (Brian) of Manassas, Virginia, brother Raymond F. Young (Peggy) of Leesburg, Virginia, brother-in-law Richard H. Moore of Leesburg, Virginia, sister-in-law Annie W. Young of Delaplane, Virginia, and a host of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other relatives.

She enjoyed being with family, cooking, gardening, tending her African violets and prayer plants in the dining room, sewing, crocheting, and serving as the treasurer and a trustee for the Gleedsville Cemetery. She enjoyed traveling with her family to destinations from Virginia to Maine to Nova Scotia, Canada, to California, and often visited Florida. She was always ready to ride to see the beautiful Virginia mountains and to find her favorite black walnut ice cream. She loved her parents' beautiful and scenic land of woods, farm pastures, orchards, and creeks. She was always delighted to see deer and turkeys visiting in the yard.

She loved the Washington Redskins, which are now known as the Commanders.

She was welcoming and kind to all. We will forever be blessed by the example she has left for us and the presence that she was in our lives.

God saw your road was getting rough and your hills too steep to climb. He gently closed your eyes and whispered "Peace Be Thine."